Psychotherapy thinks that there are unhealthy minds and healthy minds - but the experience of the Buddhas is totally different. They say: Mind as such is unhealthy. There are no healthy minds. Mind and unhealth is synonymous. So you cannot make the mind healthy. Yes, you can make it more adjusted, you can make it normally unhealthy, not abnormally unhealthy. You can bring it to a point where it is just like everybody else. That is normal unhealth, normal neurosis. But you cannot make mind healthy. It is impossible. Can you make a disease healthy? If the disease is there, you are unhealthy.
You cannot say, "Now I have a very healthy disease."
Mind is the disease! The master is one who has seen it and gone beyond the mind, who lives in the land of no-thought, who lives in that absolute silence. But from that absolute silence, the impossible becomes possible.
The master is not a therapist, but his presence is therapy. His presence heals, and heals wounds of so many lives. But his process of healing is not psychological: it is existential. He does not go on tackling each of your diseases separately: he simply cuts the root in one single stroke. He cuts the mind. he does not bother about the branches and leaves.
The psychotherapist goes on cutting the leaves. You have this fear, and the psychotherapist will try years of psychoanalysis, and somehow you become adjusted to the fear.
A man continued to piss in his bed in the night. Now he was getting 35, it was already too late. He was married, he had children. Now it was time for the children to piss in the bed - and he was still doing it. The wife suggested, "Why don't you go to the psychotherapist?" So he went. Then the long psychotherapy continued...analysis is a long process, and a very costly. And after six months a friend asked,
"How are things going?"
The man said, "Perfect!" He was buoyant, flowing with joy. He said, "Perfect. I have found the greatest psychotherapist there is in the world."
The friend asked, "So he has cured you?"
The man said, "No, but i no longer feel guilty about it. He has convinced me that this is perfectly natural, normal - in fact he himself does it."
The psychotherapist is in the same boat as you are in. All that he can do is a little patchwork.
The master kills you, destroys you, in your totality - gives birth to a new man.
- Osho (Book / The silence of the heart)
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This is good.... no mind is healthy, if everyone would just check each emotion thought fear and so on that enter their mind in just one hour, they too would see the truth in these words.... it wasn't long ago, as a mental health nurse I would have argued this point with you, but I posed a question to myself, what do they classify a healthy mind. So, i said hey my mind is healthy, and i stepped back and made a conscious decision to check every thought emotiona fear and so on that entered my brain... hahaha I'm as fudged up as everyone else and thought this big blue ball we call earth is just one big nut house. The difference between a healthy and unhealthy mind is our ability to control whatever madness swirls around up there....
Thanks awesome reading....
Thanks for the post! It occurs to me that a good bartender can be both the master and the psychotherapist.